Byte Technology

AUGUST 8, 2017

Others connect you directly to a Twitter field. Still others allow back and forth dialogues between your site’s users and frequent visitors and those who follow you on various social networking sites. But before you run out and grab a social media plugin, first check out BuddyPress, a sister program to WordPress.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Nonprofit Tech for Good experimented with Periscope for live streaming for the first time during the 2015 Independent Sector Conference. Streaming from events is an obvious fit for Periscope, but site visits and interviews with communities served, that’s where the real power of Periscope will unfold. Our Periscope use was basic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Many nonprofit CEOs use their social media profiles to extend the reach of their thought leadership and connect with professional colleagues, media, and policy makers. Balancing Personal and Professional: Worlds Collide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The current technology of live-streaming on the Web has been around for a few years, but only recently with the launch of smartphone Apps that convert phones into video cameras and social media integration, has the technology started to reach mass adoption by Web users ( its up 600% in the last year !). For example, www.ustream.tv/user/nonprofitorgs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. But, at least right now, you can still only have that one profile.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Instead of joining 15,000 or so folks for the second morning keynote, I'm sitting in my hotel room watching the keynote stream on my laptop. You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). I posted on-topic comments in Groups and posted to profiles. No one uses it. I followed people.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

But you then have no good way of finding more about them, and gradually making their acquaintance, since many public profiles are quite sparse, and stream that really gives you a picture of the person is often locked down for privacy. You might follow me on Twitter because you enjoyed this blog post. What's the difference?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog - I really love the highlights Farra shares from the “Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know" panel she attended yesterday as part of #baruchnp, at Baruch College in New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Analysis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Your organization's social media strategy should be not implemented by one lonely intern sitting in the corner of your communications and marketing department. You may be wondering if that means that your executive director and CEO needs to write a blog or have their own Twitter account to share their wisdom. I think it depends. .

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

But, can you really raise money through social networks? Social media has already shown that it is paying off for many nonprofits, but in a new way – not through direct gifts, but by deepening relationships with supporters, by empowering evangelists and much more. Social Media Generation Profiles.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

LinkedIn’s recent announcements to allow users the option to add volunteer service to their profiles and to provide expanded resources for nonprofits have generated a lot of buzz. Volunteer profiles showcase a segment of an organization’s supporter base that together with a nonprofit’s staff to support a common cause.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Create Twitter groups. Host a live stream with comments enabled. For the vast majority of nonprofits, social networks are the ideal solution for broadcasting information to their audience—using the platforms for posts alone as one-way communication channels. Invest in social fundraising solutions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

Last year, I wrote a post explaining what Twitter is and how it might be applied in museums. At the time, I was a Twitter non-participant, a lurker on the edges. Now, a year later, I’m using Twitter on a daily basis, and it’s brought up some new observations about participation on websites and in interactive venues like museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

My Flickr Stream. Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. I managed to get an invitation from one of my twitter friends. See, ha, twitter can be useful). It was invitation only. I know, pretty duh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Social media is a conversation engine. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Thank you Kevin!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. Everyone is a Curator. In this post, I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. Profiles of the people you serve. Lists turn Facebook into a media consumption channel in addition to a social network. She writes on technology, writing and social innovation and can be found on Twitter @MeghKeaney. Blog posts.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Create Twitter groups. Host a live stream with comments enabled. For the vast majority of nonprofits, social networks are the ideal solution for broadcasting information to their audience—using the platforms for posts alone as one-way communication channels. Invest in social fundraising solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've also added the pink ribbon to my Facebook profile. The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. And now for a chuckle from LOLnptech about twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

It meant that I missed what Joe Casco had to say about Social Networking Fatique - I hope he blogs it). David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ? Jonny did a session on live streaming talk shows by doing a talk show.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2011

The webinar, hosted by Jayne Cravens and Erin Barnhart , focused on four tools to use with volunteers — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs — with an emphasis that the recommendations could be adapted for any social networking tool, including those that may replace these four as most popular in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Michael Stein has reclaimed his technorati profile. NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Based in the U.K.,

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

I first found about Facebook’s terrible news feed policy change when nonprofit leader Peter Campbell posted on Twitter about the Wired piece I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. The app uses the Guidestar database to search for charities, and Network for Good to process donations. Here’s What It Did to Me.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

The result was the Knowledge Garage - a hybrid between a social network, wiki, and intranet built on the platform Groupsite. Some users are more savvy with Twitter and wikis, while others need help just accessing the conference wifi network. Don't be afraid to try something different - there is no set recipe for success.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2009

As long as the group manager doesn't clutter things up with too many feeds or feeds from irrelevent sources, this should be an easy way for a group to automatically feed company, sector, issue, or interest updates into the group's news stream. I've added NTEN's blog feed and the 09NTC Twitter feed to our members-only LinkedIn group.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. So again, it’s very key to get your supporters to post your campaign messages to their social networks.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s why we’ve taken the guesswork out of the equation by curating only the best strategic marketing resources for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest. Social Media Marketing Templates. The best part about Project Aware is that they connect well with their audience on social media.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). Shelley: This is not about social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

The NpTech Community has been early adopters of social media and social networks like Twitter. We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. Since I had access, I decided to start tweeting his key points out to my Twitter network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Twitter was definitely on an upswing (but not near the use we saw this year), and we had a TwitterCamp display set up. Pathable- A Conference Social Network Site. Our conference planner told me earlier this year about Pathable a company that provides a social network site for your conference. twitter-summary.xls.

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